This series of patches extends the KVM interrupt delivery mechanism
to correctly account for the MSI Redirection Hint bit. The RH bit is
used in logical destination mode to indicate that the delivery of the
interrupt shall only be to the lowest priority candidate LAPIC.
Currently, there is no handling of the MSI RH bit in the KVM interrupt
delivery mechanism. This patch implements the following logic:
* DM=0, RH=* : Physical destination mode. Interrupt is delivered to
the LAPIC with the matching APIC ID. (Subject to
the usual restrictions, i.e. no broadcast dest)
* DM=1, RH=0 : Logical destination mode without redirection. Interrupt
is delivered to all LAPICs in the logical group
specified by the IRQ's destination map and delivery
mode.
* DM=1, RH=1 : Logical destination mode with redirection. Interrupt
is delivered only to the lowest priority LAPIC in the
logical group specified by the dest map and the
delivery mode. Delivery semantics are otherwise
specified by the delivery_mode of the IRQ, which
is unchanged.
In other words, the RH bit is ignored in physical destination mode, and
when it is set in logical destination mode causes delivery to only apply
to the lowest priority processor in the logical group. The IA32 manual
is in slight contradiction with itself on this matter, but this patch
agrees with this interpretation of the RH bit:
https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/topic/288883
This patch has passed some rudimentary tests using an SMP QEMU guest and
virtio sourced MSIs, but I haven't done experiments with passing through
PCI hardware (intend to start working on this).
Let me know your thoughts.
-James
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